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Jakub_Smejkal's avatar
Jakub_Smejkal
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Sep 13, 2019

iControl - fetching LTM profile config - how to know values are inherited from parent profile

Hello,   we are fetching F5 config in this case various ltm profiles(http,tcp), some have attributes inherited from parent, but seems this info gets lost in iControl and later when I PATCH this v...
iControlREST
LTM
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Satoshi_Toyosa1's avatar
Satoshi_Toyosa1
Ret. Employee
Sep 18, 2019

If you are looking for common entries between two files, you can use the Unix 'comm' command. For example, 

curl -sku admin:<pass> https://<host>/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/http/httpTest | python -m json.tool > httpTest
curl -sku admin:<pass> https://<host>/mgmt/tm/ltm/profile/http/http | jpython -m json.tool > http
comm -12 http httpTest

This should give you the properties inherited from the parent http profile.